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Fred C. Shapiro

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2 picks · 1981–1992

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STARTING FROM SCRATCH
a reporter at large ·

REPORTER AT LARGE about Mongolia. In 1921 the country embraced Communism, &, within 3 years became the unofficial "sixteenth Soviet republic". Eight years …

NUCLEAR WASTE
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REPORTER AT LARGE about radioactive waste. In the thirty-eight years since the first nuclear waste from the Manhattan Project was buried, nuclear waste has…